Speaking to Entertainment Weekly last month, Headey opened up about Cersei’s fate, admitting her reaction to the character’s final scene was “mixed” at first.

“I wanted her to have some big piece or fight with somebody,” she said.

But when she talked over the scene with Coster-Waldau, 48, she changed her mind. Trapped in an underground passageway, emotional but resigned to their doomed fate, a mortally wounded Jaime uttered his final words to Cersei as the walls around them collapsed: “Nothing else matters, only us.”

Another actress who had different thoughts of her character’s fate? Maisie Williams. The young GoT star who played Arya Stark, felt her “Kill List” just wasn’t complete without Cersei’s name scratched off of it.

“I just wanted to be on set with Lena again, she’s good fun,” Williams, 22, told Entertainment Weekly of Cersei whom Arya has had it out for since season 1 of the series.

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Lena Headey 'Wanted a Better Death' for Cersei on Game of Thrones: 'I Was Kind of Gutted'

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